How-to-write-fiction Quote by L.L. Barkat

“Her tea basket was still lost, but that didn’t seem to matter now. People used to eat loose tea on long journeys. They’d pack…

— L.L. Barkat

“Had Mary Shelley fretted so? Maybe yes, maybe no. She’d begun her classic work on a dare. Had culled a dream to bring it…

— L.L. Barkat

“Tea was more than boiling water. There were decisions to be made and a frame of mind to develop, no matter how imperceptible.”

— L.L. Barkat

“One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back. “Writing for tea? Now that would have been a solution for the…

— L.L. Barkat

“Have tea, might write,” Laura returned.”

— L.L. Barkat

“Maybe you didn’t need to know anything special to write a work of fiction. Maybe you didn’t need to delve into some kind of…

— L.L. Barkat

“Writing starts with living. —Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing”

— L.L. Barkat

“If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick it apart,…

— L.L. Barkat

“You could use a moth like that as a symbol in a novel, but it was trite, wasn’t it? The old moth-to-the-flame image had…

— L.L. Barkat

“We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late and love and delight come…

— L.L. Barkat

“Maybe Laura’s real problem came in admitting this: there was nothing new under the sun. To write a story would be, somehow deep down,…

— L.L. Barkat

“A writer is always writing for someone.”

— L.L. Barkat